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Author Segers, Yves

Title Agricultural Knowledge Networks in Rural Europe, 1700-2000
Published Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer, Inc., 2022

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Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Series Boydell Studies in Rural History ; 2
Boydell studies in rural history.
Contents Front Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Knowledge and its Networks in Rural Europe: From the Early Eighteenth to the Late Twentieth Century -- Agricultural Literature in Scandinavia and the Anglo-Saxon Countries as an Indicator -- Peasant Eyes: A Critique of the Agricultural Enlightenment -- Fighting the Angoumois Grain Moth: Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau and his Network -- 'Promoting and Accelerating the Progress of Agriculture': A Case Study of Agricultural Societies
'Proper Values' in Agriculture: The Role of Agricultural Associations in Knowledge Dissemination -- 'The Eye of the Master': Livestock Improvement and Knowledge Networks in Belgium, 1900-1940 -- Bridging Rural Culture and Expert Culture: The Agrarian Press in Galicia, c.1900-c.1950 -- Farmers Facing a Body of Expertise: the Activities and Methods of the Departmental Services -- Technical Change and Knowledge Networks in England, 1945-1980s -- Communicating an Innovation: Building Dutch Progeny Testing Stations for Pigs -- Index
Summary An examination of how farming expertise could be shared and extended, over four centuries
Subject Communication in agriculture -- History -- 18th century
Communication in agriculture -- History -- 19th century
Communication in agriculture -- History -- 20th century
Agricultural innovations -- History -- 18th century
Agricultural innovations -- History -- 19th century
Agricultural innovations -- History -- 20th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History.
Agricultural innovations
Communication in agriculture
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Van Molle, Leen
Myrdal, Janken
Lehmbrock, Verena
Holland, Sarah
Claeys, Dries
Cabo, Miguel
Fernández Prieto, Lourenzo
Herment, Laurent
Brassley, Paul
ISBN 1800105762
9781800105751
1800105754
9781800105768